This album features three works by distinguished composer Alec Roth, each setting poetry on themes of nature and human reflection. A Road Less Travelled is a cantata for tenor and guitar using poems by Edward Thomas, written before his death in 1917. The Garden Path is a cycle for mezzo-soprano and string quartet setting poems by Amy Lowell, many inspired by her garden. Other Earths and Skies sets Vikram Seth’s translations of Li Bai’s poems for tenor and oboe.
Alec Roth: Chamber Music with Voice
Mark Padmore – Tenor
Martha McLorinan – Mezzo-Soprano
Hugo Hymas – Tenor
Morgan Szymanski – Guitar
Nicholas Daniel – Oboe
Sacconi Quartet
Release date: 23rd January 2026
Catalogue number: SIGCD971
Barcode: 635212097120
A Road Less Travelled
[1] 1. Introduction (Rain)
[2] 2. Away
[3] 3. The Signpost
[4] 4. Roads 1
[5] 5. Bird Song
[6] 6. Peace
[7] 7. Interlude (Instrumental)
[8] 8. The Bridge
[9] 9. Roads 2
[10] 10. Midnight Rain
[11] 11. The Gallows
[12] 12. Out in the Dark
[13] 13. The Child in the Snow
[14] 14. Home
[15] 15. Lights Out
The Garden Path
[16] 1. Moonlit Path
[17] 2. Through the Trees
[18] 3. Withered Leaves
[19] 4. Late September
Other Earths and Skies
[20] 1. In the Quiet Night
[21] 2. A Song of Qiu-pu
[22] 3. Question and Answer in the Mountains
[23] 4. The Waterfall at Lu Shan
[24] 5. Seeing Meng Haoran off to Yangzhou